Abstract: "Mozambique is a low-income nation in southern Africa with a poverty incidence at around 40 per cent. Its three flagship social transfer initiatives are: the Basic Social Subsidy Programme (Programa de Subsídio Social Básico—PSSB): a cash transfer targeting extremely poor households with no fit-for-work adults and headed by elderly people or having members with a disability or a chronic illness who are unable to work". (...)